THE GENDER DIFFERENCES EFFECTS ON CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR)

Abstract

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to company's activities through which they need to contribute to
 the society well-being. Companies which are socially responsible operate their business in such way stakeholders
 requirements are a meet as well as ethical, legal, economical and philanthropic expectations toward the society where
 companies operates. Moreover, businesses decisions and strategies should take into consideration and should act with
 more responsibility to shareholders, customers, employees, and suppliers. Company's responsibility is more than just
 legal and economic responsibility. Companies including CSR into their business strategies increase their
 competitiveness alongside other benefits. Regardless of the heated debates which have been taking place between
 academics, researchers, scholars, and corporate executives, CSR concept remains open to a range of definitions As
 well as understanding. This paper aim is to theoretically investigate how differences in gender effect on corporate
 social responsibility activities with impact on companies’ performance in developing countries. In order to achieve the
 paper aim, following the literature on CSR and research background, comprehensive research framework was
 developed. Despite the fact that CSR have been debated on many topics, the gender differences effects on CSR in
 developing countries is scarce. To fill in this gap, this paper developed a conceptual research framework that enhance
 the literature on CSR as regard the differences linking male and female’s orientation toward CSR activities.